3/1/2024 | 7:00 PM In 1968, Peace Corps veteran David Schickele enlisted his friend Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam to star in a light-hearted comedy about the adventures of a well-educated
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2/28/2024 | 7:00 PM “James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two
One of the masters of early German cinema, G. W. Pabst had an innate talent for discovering actresses (including Greta Garbo), and perhaps none of his female stars shone brighter
Rarely screened in the United States and long due for rediscovery, Victims of Sin is famed Mexican director Emilio Fernández’s unique blend of film noir, melodrama, and musical. Acting-dancing sensation Ninón Sevilla
An epic masterwork of the silent era, Abel Gance’s La roue has in recent years been restored to its complete original form: a four-part, nearly seven-hour melodrama that reaches the heights of
A double feature of I Was a Teenage Serial Killer & Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore Sarah Jacobson’s punk-spirited DIY films from the 1990s combine B-movie aesthetics and riot grrrl feminism, standing
A trio of friends venture to the rocky shores of a large island to shoot a film together. The director, Seongmo (Shin Seokho), recently gave up acting and has decided
Shot over six years in the mid-nineties by legendary photographer Richard Sandler, The Gods of Times Square is a portrait of the “Crossroads of the World’ at the beginning of its transformation
Set within the demanding and revealing milieu of a low-budget film shoot, Naked Acts tells the story of Cicely, an actress, who has recently lost 57 pounds and has landed her first
Glauber Rocha’s sophomore feature is a scorched-earth allegory about the blind followers of dead-end ideologies. Somewhere in the Brazilian hinterlands of the 1940s, ranch hand Manoel (Geraldo Del Rey) becomes